WEEK 15 #KPI FOOTBALL (as of 12/8/13) – FINAL

Welcome to Week 15 of the #KPI. Thank you so much for caring about these numbers each week. The interest has been quite humbling. Stay with me all winter as #KPI Basketball data will continue to be updated.

Technically, this is not final. The Army-Navy game next Saturday will make this final and could influence Stanford-Auburn, South Carolina-Missouri and Notre Dame-LSU at the top depending on the result. Regardless, here goes on Week 15 of the #KPI:

#KPI Football Top 40 (through games of December 7, 2013)

Florida State (13-0, 8-0 ACC), .400 (LW: 1)

Stanford (11-2, 7-2 Pac-12), .346 (LW: 7)

Auburn (12-1, 7-1 SEC), .340 (LW: 4)

Alabama (11-1, 7-1 SEC), .311 (LW: 2)

Michigan State (12-1, 8-0 Big Ten), .295 (LW: 11)

Baylor (11-1, 8-1 Big 12), .289 (LW: 10)

Missouri (11-2, 7-1 SEC), .286 (LW: 3)

South Carolina (10-2, 6-2 SEC), .286 (LW: 8)

Arizona State (10-3, 8-1 Pac-12), .280 (LW: 5)

Oklahoma State (10-2, 7-2 Big 12), .264 (LW: 6)

Ohio State (12-1, 8-0 Big Ten), .260 (LW: 9)

Oklahoma (10-2, 7-2 Big 12), .238 (LW: 22)

UCLA (9-3, 6-3 Pac-12), .230 (LW: 12)

Oregon (10-2, 7-2 Pac-12), .215 (LW: 13)

Clemson (10-2, 7-1 ACC), .207 (LW: 15)

Central Florida (11-1, 8-0 American), .206 (LW: 17)

Wisconsin (9-3, 6-2 Big Ten), .203 (LW: 16)

Virginia Tech (8-4, 5-3 ACC), .202 (LW: 14)

Georgia (8-4, 5-3 SEC), .199 (LW: 18)

Notre Dame (8-4), .190 (LW: 20)

LSU (9-3, 5-3 SEC), .188 (LW: 21)

Northern Illinois (12-1, 8-0 MAC), .176 (LW: 19)

Louisville (11-1, 7-1 American), .167 (LW: 33)

BYU (8-4), .162 (LW: 24)

Duke (10-3, 6-2 ACC), .161 (LW: 23)

USC (9-4, 6-3 Pac-12), .160 (LW: 25)

Texas A&M (8-4, 4-4 SEC), .157 (LW: 27)

Iowa (8-4, 5-3 Big Ten), .154 (LW: 26)

Washington (8-4, 5-4 Pac-12), .149 (LW: 28)

Fresno State (11-1, 7-1 Mountain West), .139 (LW: 36)

Georgia Tech (7-5, 5-3 ACC), .136 (LW: 30)

Miami-FL (9-3, 5-3 ACC), .129 (LW: 32)

Mississippi (7-5, 3-5 SEC), .129 (LW: 31)

Texas (8-4, 7-2 Big 12), .129 (LW: 29)

Houston (8-4, 5-3 American), .126 (LW: 35)

Arizona (7-5, 4-5 Pac-12), .122 (LW: 34)

Bowling Green (10-3, 7-1 MAC), .114 (LW: 52)

Michigan (7-5, 3-5 Big Ten), .111 (LW: 37)

Minnesota (8-4, 4-4 Big Ten), .106 (LW: 38)

Rice (10-3, 7-1 Conference USA), .100 (LW: 48)

#KPI News

Florida State finishes No. 1 in the #KPI. They held the No. 1 spot in the #KPI every week from Week 6 (October 6 posting) to the end of the season.

The difference between Stanford and Auburn is .006. Their strengths of schedule were virtually identical (Stanford No. 10, Auburn No. 12). Auburn played 8 home games to Stanford’s 7. Stanford had 4 wins worth +.60 or more (+1.01 at Arizona State; +.68 vs UCLA; +.63 vs Arizona State; +.62 vs Oregon) while Auburn only had two (+.73 vs Missouri; +.73 vs Alabama). Stanford went 5-0 against the #KPI top-25 while no other team won more than three. Stanford’s two wins over Arizona State were from the only repeat matchup all season.

Alabama was the only team in the top-6 not to win a conference championship.

Michigan State moved to No. 5 and currently holds a win streak against every Big Ten school.

Baylor clinched a spot in the Fiesta Bowl with the Oklahoma State loss and Baylor win Saturday. Baylor leads the nation in points per game (53.3 PPG).

Florida State was the only undefeated team when all was said and done. There were nine teams with 1-loss ranging between No. 3 and No. 30 in the #KPI. Four of those teams had final SOS numbers greater than No. 100 (UCF, Northern Illinois, Louisville, Fresno State).

Always back to the Wisconsin-Arizona State finish … if Wisconsin had attempted and made that field goal, Auburn would have finished No. 2 and Stanford No. 3 in the #KPI.

Utah (#KPI No. 47); Indiana (#KPI No. 56) and Tennessee (#KPI No. 59) were the highest ranked #KPI teams to finish under .500. All finished 5-7 and had a SOS in the top-11.